Research

Support Discoveries that Defy the Conventional:

Making new connections, looking at problems from every angle and making sure new approaches are brought to the real world quickly and effectively.

And our researchers are doing it in unique ways. Our medical school is home to Canada’s largest Skills and Simulation Centre, where students can practice procedures without risk to patients. Together with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, we are now offering the first North American medical education program in China.

We are also capitalizing on the extraordinary environment of the Advanced Research Complex for projects such as measuring air- and water-borne contaminants and developing new ways to rapidly detect disease.

You can help fund new discoveries and help our faculty members and students excel.

Waste material gets a new lease on life

Microbes versus mercury

University of Ottawa PhD candidate Daniel Grégoire and Professor Alexandre Poulain believe they have found a way to clean up mercury pollution by using light-loving bacteria naturally found in the environment.